Building better defence industry partnerships: a conference on the UK/Romania opportunity

​UK/Romania Business comes to Bucharest for a conference built around the themes of its recent publication Building better defence industry partnerships: opportunities in the new geopolitics.

​*Please note all registrations are provisional and places will only be confirmed for those most relevant to the discussion*

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​Conference themes

​Exploring the geopolitical relevance of Romania – and commercial opportunities that flow from this – the event examines what increased defence spending means, how a greater European interest in sovereign defence capability shapes this, and where the UK and Romania can build together for the changing nature of warfare and weapons systems.

​Panels and keynote remarks

​(1) Understanding Romanian defence production and procurement

​(2) The defence innovation opportunity in Romania

​(3) UK/Romania defence co-operation and strategic partnership

​Speakers include Dr Rebecca Shah, Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy Bucharest; Gen (ret.) Daniel Petrescu, Chief of the Romanian Defence Staff, 2019-2023; Jerry Weston, Space Export Sales Director, Airbus Defence and Space UK; Tudor Grecu, Partner and Head of Defence CEE, KPMG Romania; Horia-Răzvan Botiș, Board Member, NATO DIANA; Bogdan Iordache, General Partner, Underline Ventures; Radu Blideran, Defence Programme Manager, INCAS; Andreea Zvac, Partner, Wolf Theiss; Air Flotilla General (ret.) Adrian Duță, Senior Advisor – Defence and Security, KPMG Romania; Alina Inayeh, Lead Advisor, Aspen Institute Romania; Mihai Filip, Founder, OVES Enterprise, and Dr David Webster, Founder, UK/Romania Business, with more to be revealed shortly.

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​"Building better defence industry partnerships: opportunities in the new geopolitics", is the third in a series of studies by UK/Romania Business advocating for British companies and investors to reevaluate the importance of this emerging market.